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Definition of Devoiced
1. devoice [v] - See also: devoice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devoiced
Literary usage of Devoiced
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Relliquiæ Philologicæ: Or, Essays in Comparative Philology by Herbert Dukinfield Darbishire (1895)
"The one sound began with an exspiration, which when the consonant was devoiced
remained as the spiritus asper: the other was liable, through the tongue's ..."
2. Research for Development in the Middle East and North Africa by Dina Craissati, Eglal Rached (2000)
"There is a popular image, in the West at least, of the researcher or scholar
being housed in an ivory tower, devoiced from reality, pursuing archaic ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1903)
"On the principle of Mexican law already referred, the functions of the special
tribunals, under these circumstances,,devoiced on the Courts of ordinary ..."
4. Afrika und Übersee by Carl Meinhof (1845)
"... retains a Hi tone unless assimilated to a preceding Lo in the following
cases: (a) with biradicals the suffix tone is Lo (i) obligatorily, with devoiced ..."
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